World Flavors Cookbook

Guacho de Mariscos

Panamanian seafood rice stew — rice cooked to a porridge-like consistency with shrimp, octopus, clams, and coconut milk.

Cuisine: Panama

Ingredients

• 300g rice
• 200g shrimp
• 150g octopus, pre-cooked and diced
• 200g clams or mussels
• 200ml coconut milk
• 1 onion, diced
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1 red pepper, diced
• 2 tomatoes, diced
• 1 tsp achiote
• Culantro, salt

Instructions

1. Saute onion, garlic, pepper with achiote.
2. Add tomatoes. Cook 5 minutes.
3. Add rice and coconut milk. Add 500ml water.
4. Cook 15 minutes until rice is soft and soupy.
5. Add octopus, shrimp, and clams.
6. Cook 8-10 minutes until shellfish opens and shrimp is pink.
7. Add culantro. Adjust salt.